A. Ü. Fen Fakültesi 1976 yılı mezunu, Kemal Sayın adlı Kıbrıslı bir soydaşımız Prof. Dr. Afet İnan'a yazdığı 31. X. 1976 günlü bir mektupta II. Dünya savaşında Rusya'dan ayrılarak Kıbrıs'a gelen Sovyet asıllı Türk soyundan Kurban Sonat adlı bir Türkoloğun aileyi nedenlerle Türkistan'a geri dönerken kitaplarını kendisine emanet ettiğini, aradan geçen 15 yıl içinde kendisinden herhangi bir haber alamadığı için bu kitapları uygun bir kitaplığa teslim etmek istediğini yazdı. Prof. Dr. Afet İnan, bu konuyu etraflıca düşünüp ilgililerle görüştükten sonra kütüphane ve okuyucu bakımından Türk Tarih Kurumu Kütüphanesi'ni bu amaca en uygun olarak gördüğünü bildirdi. Bu öneriyi benimseyen Kemal Sayın, Lefkoşe Maslahatgüzarı Sayın Büyükelçi Candemir Önhon'un yardımlarıyle kitapları Türk Tarih Kurumu'na ulaştırdı.

The Cyprus Convention : Article I of the Convention of Defensive Alliance - better known as the "Cyprus Convention" - signed between the Ottoman and British Governments on 4th June, 1878, was as follows: "If Batum, Ardahan, Kars, or any of them shall be retained by Russia, and if any attempt shall be made at any future time by Russia to take possession of further territories of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in Asia as fixed by the Definitive Treaty of Peace, England engages to join His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in defending them by force of arms. In return, His Imperial Majesty the Sultan promises to England to introduce the necessary reforms, to be agreed upon later between the two Powers, into the Government and for the protection of the Christian and other subjects of the Porte in those territories. And in order to enable England to make the necessary provision for executing her engagements, His Imperial Majesty the Sultan further consents to assign the Island of Cyprus to be occupied and administered by England". The above Convention contained provisions of the highest political importance, for by it the British Government had entered into a formal engagement to maintain the integrity of the Turkish dominions in Asia against Russia. The general guarantee of integrity of Turkey incorporated in the Treaty of Paris of 1856 having broken down, Great Britain then acted alone. It was, according to J. W. Headlam- Morley and W. J. Childs of the British Foreign Office', a far reaching military commitment of a kind to which the British Government and Parliament had in those years been very averse.